Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, codenamed 'Haswell', will bring serious efficiency improvements that will allow 50% more laptop battery life at no cost to the performance More...

Paul Otellini, Intel's soon-to-be ex-CEO, looks back at his years at Intel and points to the iPhone: missing out on it was the only thing he regrets and one of the companies biggest mistakes. More...

Intel has detailed a few new graphics options that will be available as part of their 4th-generation Core CPUs ('Haswell'), including new Iris and Iris Pro chips that deliver up to 3x the performance More...

Google Glass headsets have been slowly shipping to developers, which can only mean one thing: more information about the device. We now know that Glass has a dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. More...

Intel's Pentium range of processors has celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday, with the original P5 chip coming out on March 22, 1993 in super-fast 60 MHz and 66 MHz variants More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...

Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing... More...

The Tegra 4 chipset codenamed "Wayne" has had it's specs leaked by a Weibo user. Judging from what we can see, we know that it's a substantial improvement to current existing chipsets. More...

A line-up for Intel's upcoming range of Haswell processors has been leaked, revealing 14 different SKUs including a 3.5 GHz flagship quad-core Core i7-4770K with an 84W TDP More...

An Intel spokesperson has now said the PC processor maker will keep making "socketed parts in the LGA package for the foreseeable future", despite recent rumors to the contrary. More...

After a rumor that Intel might abandon the socketed CPU, AMD has now publicly stated is will continue to offer such products for years to come, alleviating the worries of the enthusiast community More...

Like the original game, Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island, this time found somewhere at the intersection of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In typical TechSpot fashion, we'll be testing Far Cry... More...

AMD has long been subject of polarizing debate among technology enthusiasts. The chapters of its history provide ample ammunition for countless discussions and no small measure of rancour. More...

An overclocker by the name of AndreYang has set a world record in CPU frequency of 8.67GHz using the FX-8350 AMD chip, but only after two previously set records were set just yesterday. More...

For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II this week. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the... More...

Rumors are that Apple is looking to remove Intel processors from their Mac lineup and replace them with an architecture that closely resembles that of their mobile devices. More...

Medal of Honor: Warfighter calls for no less than a 3GHz quad-core processor paired with a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950. Given those upper-end requirements, we expect the title to be fairly... More...

A year after introducing Bulldozer FX processors, AMD is refreshing its flagship desktop series with Piledriver, an enhanced version that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency. More...

Borderlands 2 builds on the foundation laid three years ago, delivering new characters, more weapons, smarter foes, and the same addictive gameplay. We put it to the test on today's finest hardware. More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...

The world largest microchip manufacturers begins its appeal before Europe's General Court in Bruxelles. The European Commission has no substantial evidence to prove our wrong, the corporation stated More...

The chipmaker introduced its new product for the HPC market dubbed “Xeon Phi”, a new “co-processor” that will work in tandem with Xeon CPUs to deliver new levels of performances. More...

Instead of breaking new ground in performance, Ivy Bridge improves efficiency, marking the arrival of Intel's 22nm design process which uses new 3D transistors. This allows the flagship quad-core... More...

Leaked slides show how Chipzilla is already working, or better still researching on technology nodes pretty far in the future. The 5 nm chips will be here soon. More...

RIM says it has no immediate plans to use quad-core CPUs in its BlackBerry 10 devices, stating that they're "just a great spec to write on the spec sheet" for vendors who "can only compete on spec". More...

A famed theoretical physicist predicts the end of the well-known “law” set up by Gordon Moore several decades ago. Quantum computing to further develop CPUs? Still an immature tech, he says. More...

Considered a successor to Tribes 2, Tribes: Ascend embraces its heritage by incorporating the same fast-paced combat, tons of maps, weapons, vehicles and unique traversal mechanics. More...

Since late last year Ivy Bridge seems to be the architecture everyone is waiting for. Although Intel is only anticipating a 10-15% processing performance bump when compared to Sandy Bridge, the big... More...

Intel's first quarter has been a solid start, said CEO Paul Otellini: the company beat Wall Street's predictions and is foreseeing a year of growth thanks to x86 smartphones and tri-gate chips. More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...

TechSpot benchmarks the latest game from BioWare, Mass Effect 3, against an impressive range of PC hardware set-ups that include both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and Intel and AMD CPUs. More...

Intel is set to roll out its latest generation of CPUs sometime this spring. The launch marks a new "tick" in the company's product roadmap, but Intel is going beyond just a die shrink of Sandy Bridge More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...

The Core i7-3820 is intriguing because of its sub-$300 price, far less than other chips in the Sandy Bridge-E series, yet on paper it's still a powerful option. Let's see what the tests have to say. More...

Four engineers from Taiwan that worked for Intel's OEM makers have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell sample engineering CPUs on eBay, The suspects could face up to five years in jail. More...

Included in the comparison are the Thermalright True Spirit 140, Prolimatech Panther, Thermaltake Frio Advanced and Noctua NH-C14. All four are designed to support both AMD and Intel CPUs... More...

While it may not bring your PC to its knees, Skyrim promises to be the best-looking Elder Scrolls title to date with its newly developed game engine, called the "Creation Engine." More...

Today marks the arrival of Sandy Bridge-E and three new processors released initially, which include the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition, Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3820. Powered by a new LGA2011... More...

Today AMD is launching its new FX processors comprised of the flagship FX-8150 along with the FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4170 processors. Eight cores or not, AMD will keep working the value angle... More...

Battlefield 3, the latest in a long line of Battlefield titles is likely the most anticipated game of 2011. Using the new Frostbite 2 engine the game promises to deliver jaw dropping visuals... More...

Newcomer 'Flying Wild Hog' has been secretly working on an early Christmas present for PC gamers, the game is called Hard Reset, brought exclusively to the PC platform, it sports impressive visuals... More...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution appears to be every bit as good as its predecessors. In other good news, it's capable of fully utilizing the power and features of today's high-end graphics cards. More...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can... More...

ARM has come out and stated that its Mali GPU will be able to match the power of the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 within 18 months. They said that Moore's Law was not the... More...

Following in the footsteps of Brazos, AMD is now ready to unleash its bigger brother. Codenamed Llano, the new arrival resides in AMD's Lynx platform and packs four Husky cores (very similar to what's inside... More...

The Duke Nukem franchise has deep roots in PC gaming history. The trash-talking action hero made his debut some two decades ago in 1991 on MS-DOS followed by a sequel (Duke Nukem II) in 1993.... More...

Choosing a CPU platform is usually the first thing you do when building your own computer. If you've been following our reviews and always-fresh desktop PC buying guide you probably already have a good idea... More...

Mark Gurman over at 9TO5Mac is reporting that Apple is sending out iPhone 4S models to a few select developers, however, it is unclear if this is a new phone or just a slightly revised... More...

Crytek and EA unleashed the highly anticipated sequel to Crysis last week. So far reviews about the game are highly positive, while informal observations from bloggers and PC gamers tend to note that Crysis 2... More...